It Might Have Been (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
We will be what we could be. Do not say,'It might have been, had not this, or that, or this.'No ...
We will be what we could be. Do not say,'It might have been, had not this, or that, or this.'No ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
IAll valor died not on the plains of Troy.Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joyTo sing of deeds as ...
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
The sun rode high in a cloudless skyOf a perfect summer morn.She stood and gazed out into the street,And wondered ...
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
Flowers of France in the Spring,Your growth is a beautiful thing;But give us your fragrance and bloom,Yea, give us your ...
We were a baker's dozen in the house—six women and six menBesides myself; and all of us had knownThose benefits ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
In the silent midnight watches,When the earth was clothed in gloom,And the grim and awful darknessCrept unbidden to my room—On ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, ...
A CURIOUS vision, on mine eyes unfurledIn the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,Two Centuries meet, and sit ...
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,When earth was empty, waiting still for man,Before the breath of life to ...
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
A granite rock on the mountain side Gazed on ...
A little time agone, a few brief years,And there was peace within our beauteous borders;Peace, and a prosperous people, and ...
Into the world's most high and holy placesMen carry selfishness, and graft and greed.The air is rent with warring of ...
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
We met at night in the season's hight,Mid revel and mirth and song.I looked in your eye with a mute, ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,And gained permission of the Guard to wait.Barred from the bliss of ...
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
The devil in hell gave a festival,And he called his imps from their wine—Called them up from the ruddy cup,And ...
She rose up in the early dawn,And white and silently she movedAbout the house. Four men had goneTo battle for ...
In every part of the thrifty town,Whether my course be up or down,In lane, and alley, and avenue,Painted in yellow, ...
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